On 25 October 2023, a man broke into a Jewish family's home in Los Angeles yelling "Free Palestine" and "Kill Jews".[4]
On 3 November 2023, CNN reported on the arrest of 20 year-old Jordanian national for plotting a terrorist attack against the Jewish community in Houston, Texas.[5]
Paul Kessler, a 69-year-old Jewish man, was fatally injured in a dispute between pro-Israel and pro-Palestine demonstrators on November 5 in Westlake Village,Los Angeles County, California. A suspect, Loay Alnaji, was charged with involuntary manslaughter and battery, with Kessler's blood found on his megaphone. Alnaji has pled not guilty, claiming self-defense.[6]
On 4 February 2024, a Palestinian migrant ripped two pro-Israel flags from a home inHewlett, New York. When the homeowner confronted him and attempted to take back the flags, the man punched him and put him into a chokehold while yelling pro-Palestine phrases. When the homeowner could no longer fight back, the man stomped on the flags and stole them. The man was arrested later and charged with a hate crime.[7][8][9]
On 10 August 2024, 22-year-old Victor Sumpter stabbed a Jewish man in his 30s near the headquarters of theChabad Lubavitch movement inCrown Heights, Brooklyn while yelling "Free Palestine". The Jewish man was hospitalized and was expected to recover. Sumpter was arrested and charged second-degree assault as a hate crime.[10]
On August 29, 2024, Ahmed Al Jabali attacked Jewish barber Slava Shushakov in his barbershop in Yonkers, New York, stabbing and slashing him with his own barber's shears while shouting antisemitic slurs. He was sentenced in April 2025 to six years in prison for Assault in the Second Degree as a Hate Crime, a class C violent felony.[11]
On October 26, 2024, a man in Chicago was arrested and charged with 14 felonies after shooting a 39-year-old Jewish man who was walking to synagogue. The gunman, Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi, also shot at police and paramedics before being apprehended. AldermanDebra Silverstein called for the case to be treated as a hate crime.[12] On November 1, authorities charged Abdallahi with terrorism and hate crime charges.[13] Chicago mayorBrandon Johnson condemned the attack following Silverstein's criticism of his initial failure to identify the victim as "a Jewish man, wearing traditional Jewish garb, walking to a Jewish place of worship on the Jewish day of rest."[13]
In February 2025 Noora Shalash, the formerCAIR Kentucky Director, assaulted a visibly Jewish man in Manhattan while demanding Jihad and wishing ISIS to "kill all of you". When questioned on camera she cursed both Jews and Zionists. CAIR condemned the incident and noted the organization had not employed her for five years.[14][15][16]
On April 13, 2025, police arrested Cody Balmer for anarson attack against thePennsylvania Governor's Residence, while the Jewish GovernorJosh Shapiro and his family were asleep on the first night of Passover. Dauphin County District Attorney Fran Chardo called the attack a hate crime, based on Balmer's statements of hatred for the governor over his support of Israel.[17][18]
On 4 November 2023, a Jewish woman was stabbed inLyon,France and aswastika was graffitied on her home.[24]
On 11 December 2023, a 16-year-old was arrested by Austrian police for planning to attack a synagogue in Vienna.[25]
On 31 January 2024, a potentially dangerous device was found near the Israeli embassy inStockholm, prompting a large evacuation in the surrounding area. The incident was investigated by the national bomb squad.[26]
On 3 June 2024, a suspect of foreign nationality was detained inRomania after throwing Molotov cocktail outside Israeli embassy inBucharest which caused no damage and casualties. According to the embassy he was of Syrian origin and allegedly threatened to ignite himself.[33]
On 4 July 2024,Greekanti-terrorism police arrest seven people, including foreign nationals, over arson attacks against an Israeli-owned hotel and a synagogue in centralAthens.[34]
On 16 February 2025, two Palestinian men attacked an Israeli couple in Athens after hearing them speakHebrew and seeing theirStar of David necklaces, resulting in one of the victims being stabbed on his forehead.[47]
Canada
On 7 November, there was an attempted arson attack againstCongregation Beth Tikvah synagogue and a Jewish Community Center in Montreal.[48][49]
On 9 November in Montreal, two Jewish children's schools, Talmud Torah Elementary and Yeshiva Gedola, were targeted with gunfire overnight, leaving bullet holes.[50][51] On 12 November, Yeshiva Gedola was struck with gunfire for a second time. In a press conference that day, Montreal Mayor Valerie Plante said, "The Jewish community in Montreal is currently under attack."[52]
Shortly after midnight on 27 November, a Jewish community center belonging to the Jewish Community Council of Montreal was attacked with a Molotov cocktail.[53]
On 8 October, apolice officer fired his gun into a group of bus passengers inAlexandria, Egypt.[55] The attack occurred during a trip pastPompey's Pillar.[56] Two Israelitourists and an Egyptian tour guide were killed, while another Israeli was moderately wounded.[57] The suspect was subsequently taken into custody.[58]
On 17 October theEl Hamma synagogue inEl Hamma,Tunisia, a historic synagogue and the burial site of 16th-centuryKabbalist Rabbi Yosef Ma'aravi, was severely damaged during anti-Israel riots, with hundreds of people filmed setting fire to the building.[59][60][61] On the same day, the Or Zaruah synagogue inMelilla, a Spanish enclave in North Africa, was attacked by a mob chanting "murderous Israel" while waving Palestinian flags.[62][63][64]
On 7 May 2024, Israeli-Canadian businessman Ziv Kipper, head of Egyptian food exporter OK Group, was fatally shot inAlexandria by a group named "Vanguards of Liberation - the Martyr Mohammad Salah group," a reference to the Egyptian police officer who fatallyshot three Israeli soldiers. The group, who described Kipper as a Mossad agent, said the murder was in retaliation to "massacres in Gaza" and theRafah offensive.[65][66][67]
East Asia
On 13 October an Israeli diplomat was stabbed inBeijing, China,[68] for which a foreign suspect was arrested.[69]
Latin America
On 8 November 2023, two men were arrested by Brazilian police inSão Paulo following a warning from theMossad that Hezbollah was planning an attack against the country'sJewish community. Searches were also conducted inBrasília andMinas Gerais in connection with the alleged plot.[70]
OutsideChicago,Illinois, 71-year-old landlord Joseph Czuba yelled, "You Muslims must die" stabbed a 32-year-old femalePalestinian-American tenant, seriously injuring her, andstabbed her six-year-old son 26 times to death. Czuba targeted the family because they were Muslim, and he was upset about the conflict.[71][72][73][74][75] In 2025, Czuba was convicted of first degree murder, attempted first degree murder, and two hate crimes charges, and sentenced to 53 years in prison.[76]
On October 19, a man inDearborn, Michigan was arrested by local police after posting on Facebook a credible threat proposing acts of violence against Palestinian-Americans inDearborn, which has the largest population ofArab Americans in the United States. The man had posted an open invitation to "hunt Palestinians" and claimed to be part of a Jewish group protecting Israel.[77]
In October 2024, a 7-year-old Yemeni American girl was stabbed in the neck at a park in Detroit, Michigan.[78] The alleged perpetrator's family stated they believed he was experiencing a mental health episode, and the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office stated it did not have evidence that the incident was a hate crime.[78] The victim's mother, however, stated she believed the stabbing was a possible hate crime.[79] According to the family, the girl and her grandmother were the only Arabs in the park at the time of the attack.[80] TheCouncil of American Islamic Relations and Arab-American Civil Rights League both called on the incident to be investigated as a hate crime.[81][82]
West
TheCouncil on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR) inLos Angeles called for an investigation to be opened by theUniversity of California, Los Angeles after a group of men entered a space used by students watching awebinar of an ongoing panel titled "The Crisis in Palestine". The men reportedly damaged students property, verbally assaulted them calling them "terrorists" and physically threatening them before campus security removed them from the area. One of the group was allegedly spotted later at a on-campus vigil for Israel.[83][84]
On 4 November, an Arab Muslim student atStanford University inCalifornia was hit by car driven by a white man who yelled, "fuck you and your people." The incident was investigated as a hate crime.[85]
Chapters of CAIR have reported other instances ofIslamophobia since the war began with two alleged assaults' inBrooklyn, New York City and an individual who pointed a gun at pro-Palestine demonstrators outside of thePennsylvania state capitol.[86] On October 28, aPrinceton University staff member who took issue with a message assaulted a student at a protest.[87]
On 4 January 2024, animam in New Jersey was killed.[89] On 19 January 2024,Columbia University students reported that a hazardous chemical was sprayed at or near student protesters, while a pro-Palestinian divestment now rally was held. At least ten protestors reported physical symptoms with three seeking medical attention. The substance was identified by some protestors asSkunk, manufactured by the Israeli firm Odortec and has been used against demonstrators in theWest Bank.[90]
In October 2024, 23-year-old Jennifer Guilbeault was indicted for second-degree assault as a hate crime, third-degree assault as a hate crime, and second-degree aggravated harassment for a unprovoked attack with pepper spray on a Muslim Uber driver on the Upper East Side in New York City.[91] In April 2025 Guilbeault pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor harassment charge and was sentenced to 100 hours of community service and ordered to take a bias training course.[92] In Brooklyn, a group of unknown individuals were being investigated after they made anti-Palestinian comments toward a couple and punched them in the face multiple times.[93]
South
In February 2024, a 23-year-old Palestinian-American man was stabbed after attending a pro-Palestinian rally in Austin, Texas.[94] Police called the stabbing a potential "bias-motivated incident".[95] In a statement relayed by his father, the young man stated, "Mr. President, Mr. Joe Biden, I blame you for what happened to me."[96] The stabbing was deemed a hate crime.[97]
On June 23, 2024, a Jewish woman named Elizabeth Wolf inEuless,Texas attempted to drown a 3-year-old Muslim Palestinian child after making racist statements to the child's mother.[98][99][100] She is currently out on a $25,000 bond for attempted capital murder and $15,000 for injury of the child.[101] The representative for Euless,Salman Bhojani - who is Muslim himself - condemned the incident, saying "Hate has no place in Euless, District 92, or anywhere in our great state".[101]
On 15 February 2025 inMiami Beach, Florida, a 27-year-old Jewish man, Mordechai Brafman, was arrested after he opened fire upon a vehicle carrying two people who he mistakenly thought were Palestinians. According to the arrest report, while in custody, Brafman, a supporter of Israel, made a statement claiming, "While driving my truck, I saw two Palestinians and shot and killed both." In fact, the victims were both Israelis, and their injuries were not life-threatening.[102][103]
Australia
A homeowner inSydney was threatened with a bomb attached to his car after flying a Palestinian flag in front of his home.[104] The man responsible, David Maurice Wice, was charged with leaving or sending a substance/article to create false belief of danger, stalking and intimidating, entering inclosed land without lawful excuse, and using a carriage service to menace, harass or offend. He was sentenced to 12 months in jail with a non-parole period of three months, plus two years of community corrections.[105]
Bushnell was not the first person in the US to use self-immolation to protest against Israel over the Palestinian humanitarian crisis.[109][110] On December 1, 2023, an individual, whose identity was not revealed by Atlanta authorities, protested via self-immolation outside the Israeli consulate inAtlanta, Georgia, which resulted in the protester having critical injuries.[111]
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